News: Microsoft Could Be Obsolete By 2017

[John P. Myers]

94.7% Of Gamers Favor PS4 To Xbox One, According To Amazon.com Poll

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Sony PlayStation 4 Launch Edition Already Sold Out At Amazon. Goodbye M$

[Fire$torm]

Dummmm, Ta-da-dum dummmmmmmmmm

"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish........"
--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--

[DrPop]

Dummmm, Ta-da-dum dummmmmmmmmm

"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish........"
--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--

One blunder after another, that's for sure. Good thing for them they had Win7 as a breakout winner after the Vista fiasco. Hopefully they will just "re-skin" Win7 for their next update and call it Win8.1!
The other thing that helps them is all the royalties they get from every Android phone sold. That can't be small chump change, the way Samsung is just going to town. I don't even like their plastic cheapo-feeling phones for the most part, but they are going gangbusters, so that helps MS' bottom line of course.

What I HOPE happens is that the coders actually code to the higher standard of the PS4, with the options of turning the detail down when ported to MS' new XBox 1. The problem will be if they only code to what the XBox 1 can do, and then port that over to the PS4 - screwing gamers out of higher detail and/or enhanced play they could have had. I'm sure MS is somewhat betting on that.

[Fire$torm]

One blunder after another, that's for sure. Good thing for them they had Win7 as a breakout winner after the Vista fiasco. Hopefully they will just "re-skin" Win7 for their next update and call it Win8.1!
The other thing that helps them is all the royalties they get from every Android phone sold. That can't be small chump change, the way Samsung is just going to town. I don't even like their plastic cheapo-feeling phones for the most part, but they are going gangbusters, so that helps MS' bottom line of course.

What I HOPE happens is that the coders actually code to the higher standard of the PS4, with the options of turning the detail down when ported to MS' new XBox 1. The problem will be if they only code to what the XBox 1 can do, and then port that over to the PS4 - screwing gamers out of higher detail and/or enhanced play they could have had. I'm sure MS is somewhat betting on that.

Android...??? Me thinks you have made an error.

M$'s mobile product = Windows Phone (Link) and is languishing behind Android.

Android = Google's mobile product.

[Mumps]

Android...??? Me thinks you have made an error.

M$'s mobile product = Windows Phone (Link) and is languishing behind Android.

Android = Google's mobile product.

I believe he is correct. There is an IP situation that gets Microsoft royalties for every Android device sold...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft...licensing.aspx

[Slicker]

I believe he is correct. There is an IP situation that gets Microsoft royalties for every Android device sold...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft...licensing.aspx

Pretty soon Micro$oft won't actually create anything, but just own patents and other companies. Oh, wait. That's what they've been doing for years.

[Fire$torm]

I believe he is correct. There is an IP situation that gets Microsoft royalties for every Android device sold...

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft...licensing.aspx

Oh yeah, forgot about all of M$ copyright whoring/stealing/infringing....

[John P. Myers]

Don Mattrick, the president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment unit — which centers on the Xbox and all the software giant’s gaming and entertainment efforts — is leaving the company, said multiple sources close to the situation.

http://allthingsd.com/20130701/exclu...-ceo-at-zynga/

Since this article was written, it has been confirmed by M$'s CEO Steve Ballmer that Don is leaving and is going to be CEO of Zygna. Zygna also confirmed it stating he begins his new position on July 8th. Now the Xbox developement team reports directly to Steve...can't imagine how inefficient that's going to turn out to be